The best horror movies on Sky Cinema and NOW

When it comes to the horror classics this Halloween, there’s one place to go: Sky Cinema. You won’t find a silent 1920s flick here, nor many foreign gems, but from The Shining to Evil Dead, there are scares aplenty.

Don’t have Sky? A NOW NOW Cinema Membership costs £11.99 a month and gives you access to all of the Sky Cinema catalogue, both live and on-demand – and, as such, you can expect the usual suspects, from critically-acclaimed genre stalwarts to a splattering of modern gems.

Wed Craven and Kevin Williamson’s smart, self-aware horror-comedy manages to be funny and genuinely scary at the same time.
Steven Spielberg's influential summer blockbuster is still swimming with tension.
Devereux Milburn's funny, horrifying debut is a queasily nightmarish fable of America's food chain.
Brea Grant's portrait of a nurse’s night shift is a “slice of life” in more than one sense.
This scary, entertaining sequel is a knowing win for franchise fans.
Witty and scary in equal measure, this self-aware sequel has its cake and eats it.
An ageing star's revenge fantasies are fuelled by supernatural forces in Charlotte Colbert's atmospheric, visually striking horror debut.
Daniel Radcliffe impresses in this enjoyably creepy ride through haunted house conventions.
Haunted house, check. Freaky children, check. Sinister is a classic American horror movie - and all the better for it.
A buddy movie with zombies, Zombieland is laugh-out-loud stuff.
This brilliantly bonkers zombies-on-a-train flick never puts its foot on the brake.
One big shot of adrenaline to your eyeballs, this is exhilarating and petrifying stuff.
When things don't happen, it's brilliantly disturbing. When they do, it's a slight disappointment.
Paul W.S. Anderson’s sci-fi horror is far better than its reputation suggests.
Drew Goddard's satire of the horror genre is an entertaining blitz of horror and laughs.
This meta third outing in the Scream franchise is more fun than frightening.